Uma roleta russa de emoções. Me fez chorar.
Esse livro é nota 10. Simplesmente fantástico.
Enredo lindo e comovente do início ao fim, com personagens cativantes e um rico fundo histórico retratado de maneira grandiosa. É praticamente uma aula de história sobre a revolução francesa e as agitações que ocorreram na França no século XIX, abordando a dura realidade da miséria humana e da injustiça, sem deixar de revelar, no entanto, a beleza, a generosidade e a compaixão que podem surgir nas mais variadas situações. ( )

4,5 estrelas

Obra grandiosa, bem escrita, com ótima trama e leitura leve.

Pontos negativos foram os excessos de divagação e digressão histórica, e de referências literárias em obras antigas.

Vale uma segunda leitura após estudar a fundo os grandes clássicos greco-romanos ( )

First of all: I highly recommend reading The Count of Monte-Cristo before this. There are an absurd number of parallels that make the books worth thinking about together, and they juxtapose main characters with different solutions to similar problems.

I spent a year reading one chapter per day with /r/AYearofLesMiserables (which just started again for those who want to join). It is the second long, 19th-century novel I read in the original French. I had read most of it before and knew the whole story from the musical. Because of that, I wasn't as gripped by the story as I would have been with a fresh experience, but there were still moments when Hugo got me, times I thought somehow there was still a possibility of a different outcome.

Les Misérables is a good book and an important one, filled with memorable characters and a moral vision that should have (and should be) common sense. It is equally full of tangents. It's worthwhile read, but it's not always an easy read. Even for those who often read 19th-century literature, Les Mis is on another level. Entire chapters composed of obscure references may be nearly incomprehensible to modern readers, but these chapters are not critical to the story.

The tangents aren't necessarily bad--you'll probably like some and be bored by some depending on your interests (I'm partial to Waterloo and the Parisian sewer system).
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Long, but worth it. I’ve known the plot for years, but it was great to sink into the language and enjoy it as it slowly unfolded. ( )

Una novela muy buena, aunque a veces se hace largo que en lugar de describir a los personajes, los muestre actuando en tantas situaciones que no afectan a la historia (por ejemplo todos los capítulos que hay sobre el obispo, que tan solo muestran su bondad, pero no son parte de la historia). ( )